Elizabeth Cady Stanton: " He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld form her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men-both natives and foreigners. Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has opposed her on all sides"
Stanton is pointing out what is painfully obvious during these times, that all men and women were NOT created equal. It is a known fact that women had to fight for many rights that all men were given like the right to vote. What Stanton is saying that the right to vote, especially on laws, was reserved for men alone. Why should women have the right to vote? Well, that can be answered simply by acknowledging that women have to abide by these laws as well. This passage relates to the Reading because it displays how civil disobedience was the only way to attain the rights that women were entitled to.
I chose this passage because I feel as though this still rings true to an extent. I'm not saying that women don't have the same rights as men, but they certainly don't hold the same weight or capacity as those that men carry. A women's opinion is not valued as much as a mans is.
Frederick Douglass: "He says he does not wish to coerce us, but he thinks we had better go! What right has he to tell us to go? We have as much right to stay here as he has. I don't care if you did throw up your caps for him when he came to this city--I don't care if he did give you 'his heart on the outside of the City Hall and his hand on the inside.' I have as much right to stay here as he has!"
This passage deals directly with the oppression of slaves and the trouble they had when it came to the having a voice in the electoral vote. He is fighting for the right to be in the specific area and be heard during the vote. Slaves make an easier target for oppression since it is easier to control what is supposed to ultimately be a slave owners property. He is fighting for the right to be
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This passage hit close to home because women have been thru this with women's rights
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Frederick Douglass as a free man actually had more rights than a women. He however believed in the rights of man and supported the women's rights movement. Frederick Douglass "I still see before me a life of toil and trials..., but, justice must be done, the truth must be told...I will not be silent
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